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Nicknamed a "concrete battleship", [1] the reinforced concrete sea fort, shaped like a battleship, was built by the United States in 1909 as one of the harbor defenses at the wider South Channel entrance to the Bay during the American colonial period.
Steel shortages during World War I led the US to build experimental concrete ships, the largest of which was the SS Selma, today partially submerged in Galveston Bay and visible from both the Houston Ship Channel and Seawolf Park. SS Selma was built in Mobile, Alabama, and named to honor Selma, Alabama, for its successful wartime liberty loan ...
The Kiptopeke Breakwater in Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, , is formed by nine sunken concrete ships built in World War [ 25 ] SS San Pasqual , a former oil tanker, lies off the coast of Cayo Las Brujas , Cuba , 22°37′24″N 79°13′24″W / 22.623439°N 79.22327°W / 22.623439; -79.22327 , where it served as a hotel, then as a base ...
SS Palo Alto was a concrete ship built as a tanker at the end of World War I.Completed too late to see war service, she was mothballed until 1929, when she was intentionally grounded off Seacliff State Beach in the Monterey Bay, becoming part of a pleasure pier entertainment complex.
The Tumbling Bay bathing area is formed of two constructed concrete bathing areas, with steps, fed by the River Thames via the Bulstake Stream. Weirs at either end enable the water level to remain stable. Access to the bathing area is either via the Thames itself, or by a path from Botley Park. [1] Downstream the waterway feeds into the Isis. [2]
Chambers Bay was designed by Robert Trent Jones Jr. [3] [5] The 250-acre (100 ha) course is the centerpiece of a 930-acre (380 ha) county park that also includes walking trails and other spaces. Pierce County bought the land, a former sand-and-gravel quarry , for $33 million in 1992; the property was popular with off-road four-wheelers and dirt ...
Reinforced concrete girder bridge: Total length: 13,820 feet (4,210 m) (eastbound) ... The Escambia Bay Bridge is a six-lane freeway bridge that carries Interstate 10 ...
The eastern span replacement of the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge was a construction project to replace a seismically unsound portion of the Bay Bridge with a new self-anchored suspension bridge (SAS) and a pair of viaducts. The bridge is in the U.S. state of California and crosses the San Francisco Bay between Yerba Buena Island and Oakland.